The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-05
PEOPLES PARTY VOTERS.

The Ter i60rial Central Committee OF
the Peoples party met on Monday, and
formulated the address to the voters OF
that party, which appears in this issue
of The HERALD. The address is
timely, as the registration under the
new Lag is at hand. The conduct of
the eneRies to Utah has been such as
TO convince all that they will stop at
nothing in their mad desire to get pos
session and hold control of the Terri
tory. The Liberals fondly counted on
law which would turn Utah over to
them to be robbed and plundered at will.
They counted on having absolute pos
session to-day of all the offices,
aad on being supreme in the
manipulation of the machinery
of government. Their !scheme was
so HendscioQs, their greed SO apparent
and grssping, that they overreached
themselves and defeated part of their
OBJECT Congress could not be brought
to the position of lending its sanction
to a soeundrelly measure which would
have made an autocrat of the governor
and slaves of the psopie; there were
few men in the national legislature who
would not consent to license gang o
hungry Adventures to plumber and
despol a peaceful, industrious law
abiding community. The most vicious
featured Of the plan were squeiched; but
nobody must think that the would-be
spectators and the irresponsible
adventures are discouraged, or
that they will accept defeat
without protest or effort. The stakes
for which they have been playing are
too tempting to be abandoned while
there is hope of winning. Though dis
appointedithey are not disheartened, as
their uttersnces since the defeat prove
They are going to try to win by labor,
chicsnery, fraud or other means, what
they hoped ana expected Congress
would cheerfully give. Nothing that
desperation, cunning or roguery csD
suggest or effort achieve to place them
iu control of the Territory, will be neg
lected. Bulldozing, trickery and crook
edness will be attempted in the regis
trstion and strthe polls; if the Liberals
do net succeed, twill not DO for want
of trying.
Being familiar With Liberal ways
and aspirations and understanding
Liberal unscruplousness, it stands the
people in Ihand to protect their own
rights and do what they may to pre-
vent the success of fraud on the part of
their enemies. Heretofore there has
been comparatively little DANCE
threatening the people. Their majority
was so overwhelming that no amount
Of fraud could defeat them at the polls.
This great .disproportion of Numbers,
however. was a danger in that it in
spired more or less Of lethargy and
negligence in the voters. Many felt
that enough would vote to carry the
elections, hence they need not
attend to this political duty The
time has now arrived, however.
when it is absolutely necessary
for all to exercise their political rights
and perform their political duty. There
can be no trusting to others to main
tain the supremacy of the people in the
government OF the Territory. Hereafter
votes will count The women have BEEN
disfranchised and one-third of the Yot-
ers in the Territory thus stricken from
t5elists; perhaps twelve thousand 9TH
ers, men and women, have also been de.
prived of the right to vote, all these lat
ter being members of the Peoples
party, Within the past five years not
less than 1000 men and women in this
Esrritory have been disfranchised, and
the great majority of them belong to
the Peoples party. That party still
outnumbers the opposition, but not so
largely that it can afford to be negli-
gent and careless. 1t is to spur people
TO the necessity of registering and vot-
ing that the central committee has
Issued this address, and, will follow it
with such Instructions aud urgines as
as viii permit no one the excuse of
ignorance or torgetfulness. IHE
HERALD hopes the people viii carefully
read the address, ami that each wili
consider that the continuance sof good
and honest governmen IN Utah. de.
ponds upon his faithful performance of
his duty TO his party and as citizen.
Under tbs instructions set ont By the
Utah Commission, the voters will know
their tights: and under the advice of
their party leaders they should main
tain them.